Example sentences of "he always seem to " in BNC.

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1 People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man .
2 When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott .
3 He always seemed to be picking on me .
4 And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence .
5 He always seemed to be on the move …
6 He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears .
7 The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling .
8 He was clever in a bubbling , sideways way that Masklin distrusted ; he always seemed to be bottling up excitement about something , and when he spoke the words always rushed out , with Nisodemus putting ‘ ums ’ in the flow of words so that he could catch his breath without anyone having the chance to interrupt him .
9 He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them .
10 well he always seemed to me to be a bit of wise guy
11 Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ?
12 He just gives us an exercise out of the book , and he just sits … he always seems to be writing something . ‘
13 He always seems to be very nice . ’
14 Im also ‘ concerned ’ that he always seems to be the catalyst for the periods when Leeds start ‘ buzzing ’ .
15 He said it to Andy though , and I mean I do n't , I do n't know , Andy really surprises me because like he always seems to be like , the quiet one does n't it ?
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